| “ | Gonzales... No, wait. I've gotta stop doing that. It's MARIO, right? Well, you'll always be Gonzales to me, man! Because I was born in the Glitz Pit, and the Great Gonzales is, and always will be, the champ. So, let's meet again, Gonzales! I mean it, man! | „ |
| ~ Yoshi Kid |
The Yoshi Kid (name-determined, but also simply called Yoshi, Mini-Yoshi, and The Great Gonzales Jr.) is a major character of the 2004 role-playing video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its 2024 remake of the same name.
He is a small Yoshi and Mario's fourth party member in the game who hatches during the events of Chapter 3 in the Glitz Pit. He aids Mario out during Glitz Pit matches, most notably where he is crucial to defeating the Iron Adonis Twins.
Biography
He started off as an egg, which was imported from a southern island to be an extra ingredient for Mr. Hoggle's Hot Dogs. However, that plan backfired, since the Yoshi was still alive in the egg, and began jumping around. Unable to catch it himself, Mr. Hoggle asked Mario and his partners to get it for him. They succeeded, but eventually Mr. Hoggle decided that he didn't want the egg anymore, since he figured that no one would want to eat anything that "jumps around". Yoshi, while inside the egg, started to accompany Mario and his party, until he eventually hatched during their battle against the Iron Adonis Twins. After the Yoshi hatched from the egg, he thanked Mario and company for saving him from Mr. Hoggle and agreed to fight alongside them for the rest of the game. A gimmick with Yoshi is the different colors he hatches with depending on how long he was in his egg.
Outside of battle, Mario can ride Yoshi to move faster, or to get across narrow gaps that Mario cannot jump across on his own, much like Parakarry from the first Paper Mario. Yoshi's default abilities in battle are Ground Pound, which takes up one of an enemy's HP at a time (much like Lady Bow in the first one), and Gulp, where he will use his tongue to get an enemy into his mouth, and then spit it back out, and hit another enemy. When powered up, Yoshi gains the Mini-Egg attack, which is capable of lowering enemies' attack power, as well as Stampede, where he summons an army of Yoshis to attack.
Gallery
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External Links
- Yoshi Kid on the Mario Wiki
- Yoshi Kid on the Super Mario Wiki
- Yoshi Kid on the Paper Mario Wiki
- Yoshi Kid on the Nintendo Wiki
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